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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Gastronomus Maximus and Juicer Giveaway!

How exciting it is to get gifts in the mail! Amey, the ever so lovely happy-breakfast eater and neighborhood terror was so kind to send a few of us lucky readers a copy of her Gastronomus Maximus - a "cartoony vegan cookbooklet" full of delicious recipes and adorable cartoon characters. Thank you, Amey! So far I have had the pleasure of making these:

Crimson Cabbage Borscht (could this picture BE more saturated?)

The borscht was delicious and comforting. It was so beautifully red and chunky too. Even the potatoes turned red thanks to the beets. Magic soup!

Diner Loaf (mini loaves with baked potatoes and carrots)

This was a yummy non-mushy loaf. I made little loaves instead of a big one because that's just how I roll.

Grilled Herb Tofu (I am so proud of this picture!)

This tofu was delicious even though it didn't get to marinate for as long as it should have. This might just be my favorite way to eat tofu from now on.

"You Got Peanut Butter In My Chocolate" Cookies

Oh, the cookies! They are ridiculously good and highly addictive. Every bite is a peanut-buttery chocolate dream. These are from Eat, Drink & Be Vegan.

Healthy Juicer Giveaway Time!!

The nice folks at 877MyJuicer.com have asked me if I would like to do a juicer giveaway. Oh, yes I would! So, I will be holding a contest for two weeks, and the lucky winner will get a Healthy Juicer from Lexen Products.

"The Lexen Healthy Juicer is an amazing easy and effective wheatgrass and leafy green juicer, making it the most popular on the market."

If you win, I will ask you to email me your name and address so I can forward it to the 877MyJuicer.com representative and they will ship the juicer immediately. There can only be one winner, and the winner must be in the USA (I'm so sorry, my dearest international readers!) The contest ends Wednesday, February 11th at 12:00 am CST.
We all know how juicing is so good for us and it gives us lots of energy and power and all that good stuff. But what if it gave us SUPERpowers?!

So, to enter the contest, leave a comment answering this question:

If juicing turned you into a superhero, what would your superpower be? Flying? Super strength? Invisibility? Time-travel? The ability to get your cats to actually do what you want every now and then? Don't be afraid to let your superpower get as wacky as you want, or as simple as you want.

If you already have a juicer, or you are extremely generous, or don't live in the US, you can still play and nominate another blogger instead. Just make sure they know you have entered them in the contest. So, say you live in Narnia and can't enter the contest, you can still leave a comment (don't forget your superpower!) and nominate a buddy from the US.

My lovely lurkers, please feel free to come out and play! :)

I could never pick a winner myself, so I will be using one of those random number generator thingies to pick a winner. I will however showcase the most creative superpowers on my future posts, just for fun.

Good luck to everyone!

UPDATE: I'm stealing this idea from Ricki - if you mention my giveaway on your blog and link back to this post you get an extra entry! Just leave another comment on this post to give me a heads up.

I would like the superpower to be able to create new vegan restaurants on the spot. Not only would that make it awesome for me as I could have some foods whenever I want, but it would make the switch to veganism easier for people b/c there would be restaurants everywhere!

Can I have those cookies instead of the ultra-healthy juicer?? ;-) Just kidding, I'll take both! My super power? I thought you'd never ask! I'd be able to bake like Hannah (Bittersweet), craft like HalfPintPixie, speak French like Shellyfish (Musings from the FishBowl), be a super-Mama like Amanda (SouleMama), Miranda (Nurtured by Love) and Miri (Here We are Together), and travel the world for pay like Wing It Vegan!

Your tofu looks gorgeous and I'd better never make those cookies because I would eat them all!

My super power would be to have mad backcountry skills--never getting tired no matter how long the hike or how heavy my pack, always knowing the perfect spot to pitch a tent, starting roaring fires in the middle of rainstorms, that sort of thing. Maybe a juicer would help me do those things!

Wow! Those recipes look fabulous. So excited about that booklet! And how is it I keep missing all these wonderful appliance folks with free giveaways??? Good luck, everyone (so sad I can't enter. . .sniff! ).

MMMM your you got pb in my choc cookies look GREAT! mine never look that pretty and swirly...the peanut butter always blends in a little more than i'd like...but i'm guessing they still taste the same, so i am well aware of their brilliance :) also, in case anyone is wondering, i've made them subbing in mashed bananas for most of the oil, and they're great that way!

My answer is inspired by the horribly cold and miserable weather that I'm experiencing here in PA. I would have the power to form an invisible protective bubble around myself so i wouldn't feel the outside temperature, but rather, a nice warm 70 degrees. Oh, and it would be weather resistant so I could have gone running in the FREEZING RAIN today (can you tell i'm bitter?!)

Thanks so much for giving us the opportunity to win a juicer!

p.s. the tofu looks good- did you use dried herbs/spices or fresh ones?

Awesome looking tofu!! My super power would be to eat french fries anytime, and all the time, without any ill health effects. And I'll nominate Jane, the commenter right above me, if this number gets chosen.

Superpower time~Right now I'd settle for the ability to digest soya milk without it making me feel super-poorly >:o((And as I can't enter the giveaway due to my geographical issues ~ I pay it forward to the wonderful Tara, kay?) >:oD

I would love a juicer, I would give it to my mother who is battling an undiagnosed chronic pain and fatigue disorder. Maybe it would help her. If I could have any super power, it would be to heal people who need such as my mother, and to make sure no animal or person doesn't have a warm place to sleep at night.

TIME-TRAVEL all the way! I would LOVE that...what is that loaf made of? It looks so darn tasty! and so does that tofu! I know you can't share the recipe, but...hints? pretty please with greek yogurt on top? All your food looks so professionally made!

I love Amey's Gastronomus Maximus too! Your borscht is so bright and red. And yes, the tofu picture is awesome. GOod eats!! (especially those cookies.. I may have to go home and make some myself)A juicer giveaway, how fun!! I think my superpower would be: the ability to tap anyone with my magic wand and they would instantly want to go vegan! Wouldn't that be cool?

Oooh fun, a give-away! First, though, the food pictures look rad! I think I'd do a lot for one of those cookies right now...

And now to answer the question. :) If my juicer turned me into a superhero, my superpower would be the ability to instantly remember any definition or etymology of any work in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary). Wacky superpower, but it'd be handy!!

yay! ya stopped by....hehehe yea i give up on "booger". i have no idea what's wrong....but blushes am glad u like the new site. there are more functions and this silly goat here will take awhile to get used to it. ohhh for the love of blogging!

anyway good luck with felicity's. she "kills" me with awesome foodie every time! pure evil but xoxoxoxo still. kinda like some wing it vegan i know! hmph!

hoorah!I love all the pictures from my cookbooklet! that's so rad. Your tofu picture really is lovely... it's not easy to make slabs of tofu look so beautiful. :) I'm so happy that you've enjoyed the recipes you've made so far. Yippee!

oh, and if i had a super power, it would be the power to talk to my pets and tell them how much we love them, and that we will keep them safe, and they can stop worrying. Especially little Stevie Wonder. She worries a lot.

I just realized someone else already said something like this but my super power would (hopefully) be to communicate with plants. I read it once in a young adult book and I though that was the coolest magic ever. Sometimes I am able to raise plants well but sometimes I fail miserably and it would be great if I could just talk to the plant and give it what it needs.

I would like the super power to control time. I would stop time and get stuff done and then turn it back on and wow everyone with how efficient I am. I'd bake lots of cookies and personally deliver them to you on your road trip adventures.

My super power would be the ability to make reading (books, blogs, whatever) give me the same results as sleeping. That way I wouldn't feel so tired the next day when I stay up until 1am reading blogs.

I wanted to make those cookies this weekend, but didn't get around to it. They look so good!

As for my superpower.. I would LOVE to be able to read minds. I know ppl don't think this is a really cool power (as you may find out things you did not want to), but I think it would be super cool to have this. The only thing I would want is that I would have to be able to "turn it off and on".

Fortunately, I have not seen any rap videos of Joaquin's... and I am hoping to keep it that way! The recent pic I saw scared me so much that I would just like to pretend he does not look like that. When I think of him, I will keep "the old him" in my mind.

I am one of the lurkers, not very computer literate so I just enjoy your blog. My super power would to be to convince the world to go VEGAN, to make vegan the norm in our society. Super Vegan!!ThanksPam in Green Bay, WI

I thought of a better superpower~I would like the ability to turn any cat I stroke back into a kitten (as they are all eternal kittens at heart) then they could live long, happy, lives - forever with their pet humans >;oD

I would want to have the amazing expandable stomch so that I could eat all I want without the discomfort or feeling overstuffed. There are too many good foods out there. I could totally use a juicer.Emilyleavesareyummy@ix.netcom.com

i love my juicer. I just need recipes. It gives me the super power to dance on the floor like an idiot, sing at the top of my lungs and carry small children over my head for at least 12 minutes at a time, so on tuesdays I can watch 14 2 year olds and 20 3,4,and 5 year olds!When are you making a cookbook, and how can I barter for one??

I'd like the superduper ability of snapping my fingers, where by my husband will automatically declare that of course he will cook me breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner... Any kind of meal (take-out doesn't count!) for us. Because I always cook and he slacks off by playing Nintendo, doing fantasy sports, etc. Is this asking too much?

My super power would be that I could time travel at will, forward *and* backward. I sure hope I win the juicer - one of my resolutions for 2009 is to get healthy and fit, and I've been looking at juicers already!